Death Anniversary

LAHORE: Former President and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is in London to persuade his "angry" son Bilawal to return to Pakistan to attend events marking the 7th death anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto on December 27. Bilawal left for London a week before the party's foundation day event in Lahore on November 30 after reported differences with his father over the control of party affairs. It would be the first time in the last seven years if Bilawal does not...

SRINAGAR: Restrictions continued in parts of Srinagar city and Palhallan area of Baramulla district for the third day today following the death of a youth in security forces' firing during protests marking the second death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. Curfew-like restrictions continued in Safakadal , Maharaj Gunj , Khanyar , Rainawari and Nowhatta police station areas in the old city and Maisuma police station area in the...

MUMBAI: Employees of the now-divided Reliance conglomerate gathered in offices and factories to pay floral tributes to the group's founder-Chairman late Dhirubhai Ambani on his third death anniversary on Wednesday. Employees lit lamps and observed silence as they paid homage to Dhirubhai Ambani. On July two, the entire Ambani family, including Mukesh and his younger brother Anil, came together for the first time after the division of the group, to offer prayers ahead of...

SRINAGAR: Restrictions continued in parts of Srinagar city and Palhallan area of Baramulla district for the third day today following the death of a youth in security forces' firing during protests marking the second death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. Curfew-like restrictions continued in Safakadal , Maharaj Gunj , Khanyar , Rainawari and Nowhatta police station areas in the old city and Maisuma police station area in the...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary. "My tributes to Pujya (respected) Bapu," he tweeted. The Father of the Nation was assassinated on this day in 1948 here. ????? ???? ?? ???? ????????? ?? ??? ??? ???? My tributes to Pujya Bapu. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 30, 2015 Modi also paid tributes, on the Martyr's Day today, to all those who have laid down their lives for the country.

NEW DELHI: Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad , Urban Development Minister Vankaiah Naidu and Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh today launched postal stamps for Swachh Bharat mission. The stamps were launched at a consultative workshop with states and stakeholders on smart cities. "The stamps have been designed through the participation from the people and what makes them more special is that they have...

LUCKNOW: BJP said today that the party will observe 'Maximum membership day' on the death anniversary of its leader Vijayaraje Scindia on January 25, wherein women across the state will be enrolled as party members. The decision was taken during a party meeting to review membership drive of the party in Uttar Pradesh, which was chaired by state in-charge Om Prakash Mathur and attended by state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai. BJP...

NEW DELHI: Pakistan should be declared as a "terrorist state" and India should launch attacks to destroy militant training camps in PoK, All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman M S Bitta demanded today. He also said the most wanted terrorists hiding in Pakistan should be brought to India. On the eve of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary, the organisation submitted a memorandum to the Home...

NEW DELHI: Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad , Urban Development Minister Vankaiah Naidu and Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh today launched postal stamps for Swachh Bharat mission. The stamps were launched at a consultative workshop with states and stakeholders on smart cities. "The stamps have been designed through the participation from the people and what makes them more special is that they have been...

LUCKNOW: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi skipping the event to commemorate the 30th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, veteran Congress leader N D Tewari said he (Modi) should have gone to pay tributes to her. "Modi should have gone to the memorial to pay homage to the former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary today," Tewari told reporters here. The former Uttar Pradesh and...

ISLAMABAD: Tens of thousands of people on Saturday thronged the tomb of the charismatic former premier Benazir Bhutto in her hometown in Pakistan's southern Sindh province to pay homage to the slain leader on her first death anniversary, with authorities yet to track down her assassins. Amidst tight security, Supporters of Bhutto's PPP, which heads the ruling coalition at the centre, streamed into Naudero in Sindh province from all parts of the country to participate in...

PUDUCHERRY: Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy today paid homage at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of the death anniversary of the Father of the Nation. Speaker V Sabapathy, Ministers, legislators, officials and freedom fighters were among those who paid floral tributes at the statue. Patriotic songs dearest to the Mahatma were also presented by a team of teachers of Puducherry government run Bharathiar Palkalaikoodam . Two minutes silence was observed at the statue by all those...

LUCKNOW: BJP in Uttar Pradesh has said that in its fresh membership drive over one crore people have enrolled themselves as party members. The drive was launched on November 13 with an eye on 2017 state polls. "Due to dedication of workers and popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , BJP has enrolled one crore members since the membership campaign launched on November 13 last year," BJP state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai said. He said the party has fixed a...

NEW DELHI: Dabur promoter Pradip Burman , whose name has cropped up in the list given by the Centre to the Supreme Court on the blackmoney issue, today again moved a Delhi court seeking permission to travel abroad, a day after he was denied the same. However, Burman, who had yesterday sought permission to travel to Hong kong to attend his elder brother's death anniversary, today chose a new ground that he wanted to attend the 70th birthday of his...

DEORIA (UTTAR PRADESH): Expressing concern over power theft through illegal connections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said it was becoming difficult to deal with power crisis due to this problem. "How can we deal with power crisis when electricity is being supplied with 'katia' (illegal) connections. Power theft is adversely affecting the state's development," Yadav told reporters here. He said the state government had...

LUCKNOW: BJP said today that the party will observe 'Maximum membership day' on the death anniversary of its leader Vijayaraje Scindia on January 25, wherein women across the state will be enrolled as party members. The decision was taken during a party meeting to review membership drive of the party in Uttar Pradesh, which was chaired by state in-charge Om Prakash Mathur and attended by state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai. BJP...

HYDERABAD: A local court today dismissed an interim bail petition of the mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy seeking permission to visit Bellary in Karnataka to attend to his mother's death anniversary ceremony. The Special Court judge for CBI cases in his orders said that he did not find it feasible and proper to release the petitioner (Janardhan Reddy) on bail under escort to go to Bellary. The judge further noted that the release of the...

PUDUCHERRY: Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy paid homage to Dr BR Ambedkar on the occasion of his 57th death anniversary . Puducherry Assembly Speaker V Sabapathy, Ministers, legislators and representatives of different wings of the ruling AINRC also paid tributes at the statue of the leader. PCC leader AV Subramanian accompanied by leader of the opposition in the Assembly V Vaithilingam and party legislators also paid tributes. DMK...

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LAHORE: Former President and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is in London to persuade his "angry" son Bilawal to return to Pakistan to attend events marking the 7th death anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto on December 27. Bilawal left for London a week before the party's foundation day event in Lahore on November 30 after reported differences with his father over the control of party affairs. It would be the first time in the last seven years if Bilawal does not...

Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse might have brought Parliament to a standstill but the organisation he belonged to is upping the ante by installing his bust in its Delhi HQ, a few km from where the Hindu fanatic had shot dead the father of the nation in 1948. Hindu Mahasabha president Chandra Prakash Kaushik told ET that the organisation plans to write to government to ask for at least five cities where Godse's statues can be...